Connecting lines in 3d space

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

I would do this with Trapcode Particular, continuous emission of static particles with long life span, using a light used as emitter. You can control the line positions exactly, move your 3D camera and have depth of field.

[John Cuevas]

Their is a plugin that does this, Plexus. And here’s a tutorial showing how to manually do the effect. Not sure about DOF with plexus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elHqinIm4RI

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

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[Nitin Burli]

Hi Kalle,

Thank you for your response. I figured out a way with plexus. Your approach with particular sounds interesting. I’ll give it a shot and see which one works out best for me. Thanks!

[Nitin Burli]

Hi John,

Thank you for your response! I tried plexus, it works great! It even offers DOF. It’s just such a pain to manually connect the lines from null to null. Rather than a random streak I require the line to hit certain layers before it hits others. Anyhow I’ve been breaking my head over this and this is the closest that has come to achieving what I want.

Thanks a ton!